Chapter One: Lost Paradise

Hinata sits at her radiology practice looking out the window, gleaming at the sun. She enjoys her passion very much and at the minute, Hinata is in a state of bliss as she thinks about how good her life is.

She's married to a well-known and impressively successful entrepreneur who adores everything about her, and she is head over heels in love with him, Sasuke Uchiha. She's eagerly awaiting the return of the two greatest friends any woman could ask for Ino and Ten Ten, and lastly the man she loves has recently agreed to start trying for a baby.

As she thinks about everything going perfectly well, she feels like the luckiest woman on earth and spins around in her swivel chair.

Unfortunately, for Hinata in a few moments, her perfect world was about to come crashing down and send her on the ride of her life.

Later that day

It's almost time to leave for the day and Hinata begins to pack up the files that she wants to review at home and as she does she thinks to herself.

'I wonder if he'll be as romantic as last time,'

The thought makes her blush from picturing herself making sweet love to Sasuke, hoping to get pregnant in the process.

Suddenly, her office phone buzz and she presses the speaker, "Mrs. Uchiha your husband is on his way up."

Like normal, Hinata hurriedly fixes her hair and attire, wanting to look flawless for her husband's gaze.

However, when he opens the door her uplifted lips fall instantly with worry.

"Sasu hunny, what's wrong? Why do you look so upset?" She asks in a deeply concerned tone.

Sasuke refrains his response, knowing that it will surely knock her off her feet if he talks without measure, but he glares at her with intense fury as if he's ready to rip her apart.

He then rudely throws his phone at her "What the fuck is this?"

Though he says it quietly, Hinata can clearly hear the burdening discontent in his voice and when she looks at his phone her heart drops into a bottomless pit.

While still leering at his timeline Hinata's eyes widen and she gasps from shock to see a picture of her wrapped in her friend's arms with her lips braced against his, Kiba Inazuka.

After mentally preparing her words, she closes the app. Then as she timidly looks at Sasuke, she licks her drying lips and swallows as her throat burns fearing that things are about to escalate.

"Sasu I can explain," she says sweetly as she approaches her husband.

Although he sneers at her Hinata smiles warmly, it really isn't much of a big deal in her head though she's aware of the trouble it brings.

When she reaches him, she lifts her hand to hold his cheek and then says calmly.

"It's just a simple misunderstanding, I wa-" she shudders when Sasuke catches her hand before it touches his face and it rattles her initial thoughts.

He pulls her hand down from his head and begins to slowly step backward to gain some literal distance.

"Go on explain," he says as he lets go of her hand and leans himself in the doorway.

When she looks at him dazed and scared his anger sets off.

"Explain it to me… explain HOW THE FUCK YOU'RE KISSING SOMEONE ELSE!" he yells,

His tone throws him off just as much as it did her, from never thinking it possible that he would ever swear at the love of his life until this very moment. Despite this, the pain in his chest quakes and it's so immense that he quickly shakes off the repentance, now feeling as though he should burn his wife to ashes.

Hinata stands with nervous eyes, trembling in silence when her focus shifts to the movement behind him. Seeing that staff are beginning to gather and look into her office while making soft remarks, she quickly composes herself.

"We'll talk about it at home, just give me five minutes," she says in a faint voice not wanting anyone but him to hear.

He nods his head condescendingly as he walks out "I'll be in the car."

As soon as he moves off, she rushes to grab the remaining paperwork and hurries to meet up with him downstairs.

While carpooling home they sit in complete and dreadful silence, and though she wants to say something, every time she glances at her husband the face she sees makes her tempted to crawl into a snake filled hole and die.

After thirty minutes they arrive home, though it felt like the ride lasted an eternity for them both, and when Sasuke gets out of the car the first thing he does is sigh then aggressively slams his door. Meanwhile, Hinata charily takes out her briefcase while warily biting her lips.

She then follows him inside and as soon as she closes the door behind her Sasuke throws his keys on the entrance table, undoes his tie, and turns around to face her.

"Now… You were saying?"

He says in a much more relaxed tone but with a blank look on his face, and it brings her some assurance as she drops her briefcase to explain.

"I don't know what else to say, but it's not what it looks like," she says in a fairly confident voice.

He scoffs "Ohh really, sorry for my misinterpretation of my wife with another man's TONGUE DOWN HER THROAT!"

"Stop yelling at me it's not what it looks like I wasn't-."

As her tone heightens Sasuke stops her speech by pressing a finger against her lip, not wanting to be spoken to with hostility at the moment.

With his finger still in position, his jaw tightens as he looks down at her, and Hinata swallows the lump that starts to knot in her throat when he moves his hand.

"Okay," -She walks past him slowly then adds- "I'll tell you everything and this is the truth."

Sasuke turns to her and nods his head with unconvinced eyes.

"It happened about two weeks ago, I got a call from a lady who said she needed to see me urgently in the morning about a result she had gotten. That's the day I left for work early."

~Flashback~

Hinata was walking up to her practice as usual when Kiba came out of nowhere, though it was strange she greeted her good friend courteously.

"Hinata, how are you?" He replied in an exhausted tone

"What are you doing here? And at this hour Kiba?"

"I-uh well I wanted to see you, I really needed to see you again," he said as he walked closer to her.

"Okay, so what's up?" She asked casually while looking for her office keys

Kiba looked over towards the bushes on his right and then suddenly embraced her, he quickly put one arm around her hip and one on her face and smothered himself on her lips.

Though frozen in shock, Hinata takes less than ten seconds to give him the coldest slap of his life, intended to knock out his eardrum.

"What on earth are you doing Kiba?!" She shouted as she charged away from him to open the door to her practice.

Then caught off guard by her reaction Kiba grips his hair, she was normally timid and approachable and after feeling that they shared the same connection recently, this outcome was not the one he was expecting from his admired friend.

Without hesitating, he tried to plead with her.

"Hinata I-I I'm so sorry please forgive me I just wanted to see if you had any feelings for me," he said with a terrified look in his eyes.

"Feelings?! Are you insane?! I'm married now Kiba, why would I feel anything for you romantically?" -She yelled while opening the door then quickly turned to Kiba to add -"As a matter of fact consider this friendship over I never want to see you again! Goodbye."

Kiba sighed as his frown grew deeper and as he slapped himself Hinata slammed the door in his face.

"How could I be so stupid?" he thought to himself, right after having ruined his friendship all because someone urged him to reveal what he was feeling.

~End of Flashback~

With hate in his heart, Sasuke continues to listen to her relive the morning in question but as he struggles to find correctness from her self assured tone, his mind gets flooded by his own inferences from her story.

'What else has she ever lied to me about?'

'How many times did she meet with him?'

'Has she been with anyone else?'

'Was she ever going to tell me?'

'How could she stand there and lie to me when she knows I saw the photo?'

While still in thought, he looks down at his phone and when he glances at the comments ridiculing his wife, mocking her leaked infidelity and his inability to please her, Sasuke walks over to the bar to grab himself a drink, feeling that his ears were just about ready to fall off as his eyes burn with dejection.

Though he appears to not be listening, Hinata continues talking about the incident with little remorse in her speech while watching her husband closely.

To her it's nothing too serious, she's never cheated on him because she adores all that he is. Though she knows that he has a good reason to be upset, to her the kiss was far too insignificant to be worthy of mentioning when she didn't think of it even a single second after. As a result, in her mind, Hinata is certain he'll see truth since there was never an affair.

'It was just a simple misunderstanding, a dumb little kiss that someone unfortunately managed to witness', she reasons with herself.

Sasuke however finds her misjudgment extremely disrespectful after years of cautioning and as he takes a sip of his liquor, Sasuke looks at his wife with nothing short of hurt in his eyes and sorrow in his heart.

He truly can't believe what is happening, his Hinata, the love of his life, and the only thing that ever mattered to him in this world is lying straight to his face about her intentions.

As his damaged heart aches, Sasuke blinks away his tears angrily, now convinced that the lack of remorse in her tone is a clear indication that her action was purely intentional as he pieces it together in his head.

'She never left for work so early before'

'She always allowed me to carry her to work but that morning she told me that I should sleep in'

'If Kiba had kissed her as some misunderstanding why would she keep something like that a secret.'

Drowning her out as his thinking wraps up, Sasuke lets out a loathsome sigh when he finishes his drink. He then glares at her and when Hinata focuses on him he suddenly slams his glass into the sink causing her to jump in place

"Enough! Just shut up I've heard enough," he says then turns slightly while rubbing his temples.

"S-so do you see? it was all a misunderstanding Sasu... I love you it was nothing" Hinata submissively replies.

Then as she moves closer to hold him, Sasuke stares her down bitterly, stopping her on the spot.

"I don't believe a word you said…" he replies in a tone meant to be severely harsh.

Now ready to air her out totally, he leans over the counter and smirks.

"So tell me how many times exactly has someone fallen on your lips while we've been married?"

Then angered by his question, she stomps up to him burning with enmity and slaps him hard, rocking his head to the right powerfully.

"How dare you ask me that! I've never kissed anyone else!"

Suddenly, Sasuke's rage completely engulfs him, and without a second to spare he snaps his face back to her. Then with eyes piercing like soul crushing lasers his hands grip her tight and firm as he shakes her forcefully, releasing as much anger as he can with his hold.

"How dare I? How DARE I?! HOW DARE YOU!" he shouts with all the air in his lungs.

"Why would you keep this a secret from me if you had nothing to hide Hinata?! You promised me" his voice cracks at the end, and as he continues to shake her, his tears start to flow freely.

As she raises her bowed head frightfully Hinata's brows furrow when she sees the severe pain her supposed infidelity had brought her husband. He hasn't said her name like that in years, and seeing him so distraught dismantles her confidence.

"I-I'm sorry it wasn't-"

Before she can get her words out Sasuke looks at her venomously, and aggressively rubs a finger on her lips "shhhh"

Now falling just short of popping a blood vessel, he's had enough and shoves her away to get as much distance as possible, fearing what he might do to her if he stays any longer.

As he storms through the door wobbling, Hinata tries to use her words to calm him down, not daring to touch him when the anger is radiating from him so greatly.

She's never seen him this vicious before and it scared her to think how much this would impact them.

Now feeling the need to get advice, she takes out her phone to call her friends, however, when she turns it on she quickly becomes aware of how much contention she's caused not only to her marriage but to her life in general as her phone blows up with messages and missed calls from equally concerned friends and family about her encounter with Kiba.

When she opens her social media and sees that she's now the talking point of everyone's conversations, Hinata drops on the couch and throws her phone across the room, now in total confusion about what to do next.

As she thinks about her predicament and realizes that the one person she could always count on had just walked out on her while the world spits at her for supposedly having an affair, Hinata brings her knees up to her chest and bows her head into them.

While softly sobbing in her empty home she whispers "Why is this happening to me?"